John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate the Tánaiste on that. I accept that he has taken those actions. As we speak, however, nurses and doctors are being intimidated in Bahrain. Some of them did not take part in the protest but merely provided treatment in hospital to people who had been injured in the demonstration.

Surely someone must be held accountable if Irish trained doctors are being imprisoned for speaking out against a regime that opposes human rights. I congratulate the Tánaiste on the contacts he has made, but his words seem to be falling on deaf ears. My information, gained in the last number of days, is that nurses and doctors who treated people who took part in the demonstrations are still being mistreated in Bahrain.

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